Not already a member?
Join our community and - Rate & review pubs - Upload pictures - Add events JOIN for free NOW

Chat about:
Random news of the day with Pangolin on the Pub Forum

Image posted by Graham Coombs
Submitted on Sunday, 1^st December 2024
With picture contributions to 5868 other pubs
View all this pub's pictures (11 more images)

Only members may add pictures, click to receive free membership

Detail Pages

Pub map
Pub reviews (4)
Pub pictures (12)
Page updates

Albert Sports Bar, Retford

31 Albert Road
Retford
DN22 6JB

Correct details

Served areas

Retford Town

Reviews of Albert Sports Bar (Average Rating: 5½ of 10) Add Review see review guidelines

Strongers . left this review about Albert Sports Bar

Albert Sports Bar, or Albertos as it’s otherwise known, has an L-shaped serving counter on the rear wall where premium and standard keg was available from a mardy young barmaid during a recent midweek evening visit. Thankfully the sports loving locals were friendlier, I ended up in a best of three darts match with one on the board up the right of the counter where the surround is brilliant. High tables are found up the left of the counter and there’s a pool table across the front windows. Unsurprisingly televisions throughout were airing sports television. This is maybe not somewhere that would be included in a crawl of the area, but as a sports destination it’s great and I’d revisit if I was in town when the Bees were on the box.

On 20^th February 2026 - rating: 6
[User has posted 6560 recommendations about 6522 pubs]

Old Boots left this review about Albert Sports Bar

Also known as Albertos, it claims to be Retford's premier sports bar. It has a few screens, machines which occupied the bar staff, and a pool table. There’s a couple of big photo montages on the walls showing various sports. A single square room with a U shaped servery in the middle, high seating down each arm of the U. Two horseshoes with a solo and a double Cruzcampo have a single hand pump lurking in the middle. It dispensed a frighteningly cold Batemans Gold but not vinegar as I feared given the surrounding lager drinkers. A back street boozer best left to the locals.

On 12^th February 2026 - no rating submitted
[User has posted 3929 recommendations about 3593 pubs]

Please Note: This review is over a year old.

Graham Coombs left this review about Alberto's

The closest surviving pub to the station and originally the Albert Hotel, this little backstreet boozer has become more of a sports bar with TV screens and a pool table in a very dated interior refurb featuring lots of spurious stonework. They did at least show a bit of marketing nous, with a sign outside advertising Bateman’s XB on offer at £3 a pint, while the solitary handpump on the bar was dispensing Ringwood Razorback in fair condition. Quite a friendly place, and some corned beef rolls left over from the previous evening were offered and gratefully received, but a ‘To Let’ sign outside means things may change here.

On 1^st December 2024 - rating: 6
[User has posted 3900 recommendations about 3832 pubs]

View more reviews of Albert Sports Bar (4)

External web links for Albert Sports Bar

Pubs Galore is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.